help! why is cakewalk9 blending my tracks?

[stillseason]

hi,

i'm really new at home recording, so maybe this is a stupid question, but i haven't been able to figure it out on my own.

when recording in cakewalk (pro audio9) the armed track not only records the current line in, but also any other tracks that are playing back at the time of recording. so i end up with a muddy track that blends the new audio with all previously recorded audio .

the only way i can get a track to record with nothing on it but the "line in" instrument is to solo the track during recording but then i can't hear the rest of the music i am playing along with. any suggestions?

btw, i'm using a creative audigy2 sound card.

thanks for any help you can offer,

-s

 

[AlChuck]

You probably have the recording properties of the Audigy set to record from "What U Hear," meaning that everything that's enabled for playback also gets piped into the recording device. So your Line In, your already-recorded tracks, and anything else that might be there all get recorded.

The solution is to set the recording properties to record from only the Line In explicitly.

I'm not sure if this is still the way to do this in new operating systems or newer Creative sound cards, but here's a writeup at the Cakewalk website on how to do this:

http://www.cakewalk.com/support/lessons/windowsmixer.asp

It's also possible to do essentially the same thing if you are using an external mixer to control the routing of your sources and the the soundcard's signals (the Windows volume control utility is really just a software mixer with a horribly thought-out user interface).

 

[stillseason]

thanks! i'll check out that link. really appreciate the help

-s

 

[stillseason]

thanks AlChuck! that solved the problem!